“It is in the character of very few people to honour a prosperous friend without envy, and these very few people tend to become best friends.”
“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”
“Very few people are able to discount the effect of circumstances upon their own characters.”
“Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.”
“A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.”
“Capitalism means that a few people will do very well, and the rest will serve the few.”